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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: barney on May 13, 2010, 12:48:46 AM
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I have just about had it. I go to ebay and conduct a search for all "Amiga" items, but there is somthing that really annoys me. Of all 12,500 items that come up 10,000 of them are single issues of amiga world.....PAGE AFTER DAMN PAGE OF AMIGA WORLD. Does anybody else get annoyed with this? It gets to be an eye sore...the same damn issues of amiga world staring me in the face, week after week. Not only that but they have the nerve to charge over $20 an issue. Sorry about my ranting. Thank you.
Barney
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Plus everything for sale is 'Rare' for some reason. What a load of bollocks.
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lol I remember when the vintage sections were clogged up with stupid WoW gold/credits etc that went on for pages without interruption when I wanted to browse all retro machines at once sorted by price.
You could of course search for "amiga -world" though ;)
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I will have to try "amiga -world". I knew there was a way to ignore a certain word. Thanks.
By the way, here is somthing else that really pisses me off. What is up with the big influx of overpriced 8088 IBM bridgeboards for the Amiga? I see people selling the rediculous things for over $125. No offense everybody, but these things nowadays are totally useless. They were almost useless back then. You can only run the most archaic software, nowhere to put the floppy drive (bay already filled), finding ibm software on 720k disks is almost impossible, and did I mention they're useless?!!! Sorry, I am losing my temper again.
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I will have to try "amiga -world". I knew there was a way to ignore a certain word. Thanks.
I've also noticed a strange effect with ebay searches too. If you type in "Amiga game" and search it picks out loads of auctions with just the word amiga. To get round it you have to put both words in double quotes. Kinda mad. Also I have some absolutely OTT searches in the general section saved that look like scientific formulas with all the brackets comas and minus signs in max length value for the input field, works a treat though as it filters out all the machines I do and don't want :)
edit: double quotes required around both words I mean. Double quotes around the phrase "amiga game" like that alone will miss out things titled "Amiga A500/600/1000/2000 game Lotus II" etc ;)
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Yeah would be nice if the would do the same thing in Vintage Computing than in Video Games. They can be sorted by System only or by Accessories, or other stuff...
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I have just about had it. I go to ebay and conduct a search for all "Amiga" items, but there is somthing that really annoys me. Of all 12,500 items that come up 10,000 of them are single issues of amiga world.....PAGE AFTER DAMN PAGE OF AMIGA WORLD. Does anybody else get annoyed with this? It gets to be an eye sore...the same damn issues of amiga world staring me in the face, week after week. Not only that but they have the nerve to charge over $20 an issue. Sorry about my ranting. Thank you.
Barney
I totally understand, the other fact is that when I search the local eaby or ebay.com worldwide for say an Amiga 4000, I get 0 results.
When I go to ebay.de 1 result pops up, so WTF is that ?
Nothing is rare, rare are the developer systems, protypes, any Amiga is just common, not even a Cyberstorm PPC is rare :roflmao:
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You should have a look on the Australian EBay site (just doa search for Amiga). There are one or two guys on there selling Amiga and C64 items for rediculous amounts, some are more than what they had cost when they were new.
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If you pay the monthly fee for a shop you get unlimited listings for like 20 cents each.
It's a pretty lousy experience on Ebay nowadays.
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If you pay the monthly fee for a shop you get unlimited listings for like 20 cents each.
It's a pretty lousy experience on Ebay nowadays.
You pay a monthly fee to get unlimited listings that you have to pay 20 cents each? Doesn't really add up :P
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My brother in law used to sell books on ebay. Then ebay changed for the worst so he switched to amazon. He said they are way better for most stuff, it's not the same setup of course.
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Unfortunately eBay aint the only disturbing thing. What about youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU
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There's something disturbing about buying on eBay period. It's become overun by scammers, whiners and wankers.
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you can still find a good deal, but you have to really be on the lookout. Far more jerks trying to rip you off.
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The fact that I bought a seemingly defective 50Mhz 030 and have not heard back from the seller yet irritates me. I have NEVER been ripped off or treated unfairly by an Amiga user, and I hope this guy is not going to ruin that legacy. :/
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The fact that I bought a seemingly defective 50Mhz 030 and have not heard back from the seller yet irritates me. I have NEVER been ripped off or treated unfairly by an Amiga user, and I hope this guy is not going to ruin that legacy. :/
I just paid on an Amiga 1200, but so far, no response back from the seller, though its only the 3rd day...
Only been ripped off once before, but I'll definately keep an eye on the paypal dispute period
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On the up side, my guy just wrote me. Relief.
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Ebay does have buyer protection for many sales;just don't let the dispute time expire.
I had a Yahoo seller put me off with excuses until the time was too late to file and it cost me $80.
Caveat emptor.
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But here is what I really don't understand. People keep the same damn stuff in there WEEK AFTER WEEK and it doesn't sell. Not only that, but the price doesn't go down one dime!!! I am a big collector of Vic-20 stuff and there is a guy selling an $8 game cartridge for $100. It has been in there over 2 years....doesn't he understand it will NEVER SELL!!!? I guess people use all this over priced crap as "filler" to make their stores larger than they really are. Two decently prices items wrapped in blanket of "Out of this world, overpriced garbage!!!!!!!"
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Yeah, there was an A2000 on there the other day for "Buy it Now-999 dollars!" After a few it changed to 299. Not too sure he ever got the offer he wanted :crazy:
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http://cgi.ebay.de/Amiga-1200-Blizzard-PPC-PowerPC-603e-Power-Board-/150440766564?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item2306f7ec64
Blizzard PPC 603 060/240, it's going for 600 or more I bet, 12 hours left.
I paid 300 for a 1260 including SCSI adapter, a full working A1200 with modified PSU, black Amiga mouse and a SCSI CDROM drive.
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Ive been guilty of this in the past when selling books, but its easy to get into your head that "there might be that one guy who'll pay a crazy price!"
Usually... there's not :)
Of course on ebay everything is RARE and MINT.
"GOOD AS NEW although I haven't powered it on for 9 years"
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Unfortunately eBay aint the only disturbing thing. What about youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU
Eyes... burning... must... mind bleach...
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I shop on ebay but BINs only - and then only from dealers with a 98% or better rating.
Anything less and you're asking to be screwed.
For $125 I picked up a new touchscreen, bezel and hinge and got a thrown-away Gateway tablet notebook working again, plus various other bits and pieces over the years.
I've only fought through auctions a few times, and then it was on stuff that clearly was being bid against by a single only slightly-interested person...
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That Blizzard did 755 euro's or 940 dollars / 645 pounds for a 060/240!!